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Question about The Canadian Farming industry in the 1870's 80's?

What were the changes introduced during the 1870's and 18180's that made Canadian Prairy farming more successful? Please mention the National Policy, Immigration and the Dominion Lands Act in your answer. Thanks I mean in the 1870's and the 1880's.

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1. The Dominion Lands Act (short for An Act Respecting the Public Lands of the Dominion) was an 1872 Canadian law that aimed to encourage the settlement of Canada's prairie provinces. It was closely based on the United States Homestead Act, setting the parameters within which western land could be settled and its natural resources developed. Canada thus invited mass settlement by European and American pioneers. Development of the Prairie Provinces, being crucial to the transcontinental political integration of Canada, received massive government support. Homesteads were `free', and additional land, having been granted to the railways, was made available at `reasonable' prices. Between 1900 and 1910, a second and a third transcontinental railway were projected and construction was begun with government support. Between 1910 and 1920, completed railway mileage doubled from 19,000 to 38,000. The fastest rates of growth in almost every aspect of economic life were recorded on the central plain, where everything started, in 1869, from the statistically miniscule fur trading activities of the Hudson Bay Company. Gross Value Added in the three Prairie Provinces, as a portion of national Gross Value Added rose from 5%, in 1890, to 20%, in 1929. Advance on the Prairies was both the focus and measure of transcontinental nation building. The question is, was Prairie development a source of wealth on which the rest of Canada grew, or did the rest of Canada pay a price for that development? In short, what was the substance of the economic development in Canada between 1870 and 1930? Which frontier was the economically important frontier? The National Policy is the term used to describe the steps that the Canadian government took to create a continent-wide economy once it had acquired Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company. The three main elements of the National policy were public support for a trans-continental railways, high manufacturing tariffs, and immigration to Western Canada. Each of these elements was seen to be dependent on the others. The railway was needed both to bring immigrants to the West and to ship the grain that they grew to ports in Eastern Canada. The manufacturing tariffs were high taxes that were placed on manufactured goods imported into Canada. By keeping the price of imported goods above the price of good manufactured in Canada, the government hoped to help Canadian industries. Immigrants were needed to build the railways, settle the farms, and buy the goods that were to be produced by the protected industries. The money that the government received from the tariff was to be used to finance the railways..